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Jenn Sal
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Posted: July 22 2013 at 7:00am \| IP Logged

While reading the saint of the day on the Laudate app, I read that Mary Magdalen is the sister of Lazarus. I had never heard of this. Have you?

I feel silly that I had never heard of this!

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Posted: July 22 2013 at 7:45am \| IP Logged

Here is the write-up at Catholic Encyclopedia

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Posted: July 22 2013 at 10:50am \| IP Logged

Yes, this is a very traditional view (Fathers of the Church) of Mary Magdalene, that she was the sister of Lazarus and Martha. Later scholars have disputed this, but nothing is a teaching of the Church which view to see.

I personally believe she is (I think Scott Hahn thinks this, too). If you think about it, the viewpoint of the Church is she is one and the same Mary, sister of St. Martha. After all, St. Martha has her feast day, but Mary doesn't? And yet, didn't Mary "choose the better part" which we just read yesterday?

The woman (included in this article, also) who anoints Jesus' feet with her tears and ointment is also considered the same Mary (at Bethany), although this is less likely, because Mary's family wouldn't be considered prominent if she had been living loosely .

But this is an area of personal choice, tradition with a small "t" and not the teaching Tradition of the church.

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Posted: July 22 2013 at 12:15pm \| IP Logged

There is a blog post on Word on Fire today about this very topic!

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